中国物理B ›› 2011, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (6): 67804-067804.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/6/067804

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Photoluminescence spectroscopy of defects in ZnO nano/microwires

孙香冰1, 焦现炜1, 冯林2   

  1. (1)72465 Unit of the PLA, Jinan 250022, China; (2)School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
  • 收稿日期:2010-08-29 修回日期:2010-10-08 出版日期:2011-06-15 发布日期:2011-06-15

Photoluminescence spectroscopy of defects in ZnO nano/microwires

Sun Xiang-Bing(孙香冰)a), Feng Lin(冯林)b)†, and Jiao Xian-Wei(焦现炜)a)   

  1. a 72465 Unit of the PLA, Jinan 250022, China; b School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
  • Received:2010-08-29 Revised:2010-10-08 Online:2011-06-15 Published:2011-06-15

摘要: Photoluminescence spectroscopy is used to study defects found in single ZnO nano/microwires at 90 K. The defect, acting as binding site for bound exciton (BX) transition, is represented by BF, the fractional intensity of the BX peak in the whole near-band edge ultraviolet (UV) luminescence. The concentration of defects as origins of the visible emissions is proportional to the intensity fraction DF, i.e., the intensity fraction of visible emissions in the sum total of all UV and visible luminescences. By comparing BF and DF, it is concluded that the two defects are not correlated to each other. The former kind of defect is considered to be related to the blueshift of the near-band edge peak as the radius of the nano/microwires decreases at room temperature.

Abstract: Photoluminescence spectroscopy is used to study defects found in single ZnO nano/microwires at 90 K. The defect, acting as binding site for bound exciton (BX) transition, is represented by BF, the fractional intensity of the BX peak in the whole near-band edge ultraviolet (UV) luminescence. The concentration of defects as origins of the visible emissions is proportional to the intensity fraction DF, i.e., the intensity fraction of visible emissions in the sum total of all UV and visible luminescences. By comparing BF and DF, it is concluded that the two defects are not correlated to each other. The former kind of defect is considered to be related to the blueshift of the near-band edge peak as the radius of the nano/microwires decreases at room temperature.

Key words: ZnO, photoluminescence, defect

中图分类号:  (Photoluminescence, properties and materials)

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78.55.Et (II-VI semiconductors) 42.62.Fi (Laser spectroscopy) 61.46.Km (Structure of nanowires and nanorods (long, free or loosely attached, quantum wires and quantum rods, but not gate-isolated embedded quantum wires))